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Federal programs helping states cover the cost of placing a child in foster care, grew from $300 million in 1981 to nearly $2.7 billion in 1991. Yet, there is no federal program to help keep a child in his home.

Video Stories: Abuse in foster care

These video's are not easy to watch. They document a
serious problem that continues to get worse as more children are Kidjacked from
their families and placed in an ever growing foster care system

These stories focus on the abuse many foster children are subject to
while in the foster care system.

They are the stories no one wants to hear -- children, abused and neglected,
some to the point of death. Many of them must leave their families to go into
shelters or foster care. Often these children leave their homes with only a
garbage bag to hold their clothes and favorite toys, the most are routinely
tossed from one temporary placement to another, often ten or twenty times during
their most formative, vulnerable years.

This is the continuing saga of crimes against Foster children. Children are
dying, inside and out of the foster care system.

These stories are in memory of children died of neglect or abuse while under
the care of the social service agencies! Many died suspiciously or from neglect.
Most of their lives and deaths went unnoticed. Until now. But you likely never
heard of them. The deaths of these children -- and what government agencies did
or didn't do to save their lives -- Even when they die, their stories are rarely
told.

Those Children Were Failed by the System ! Please, don't wait for new name on this page.